"Your Daily Tripod" reflects the personal Fourth Day journeys of its authors and editors. We are happy to have companions like you share in this project. Our prayer is that these reflections will invite and inspire your Fourth Day journey of Piety, Study and Action as much as writing or editing them inspires our journey and brings us all close moments with Jesus and our neighbors.

One of my favorite Super
Bowl ads this year featured Americans singing “America the Beautiful” in
several different languages. It brought
tears to my eyes to think of so many peoples, heritages, histories, values, aspirations,
fears and faiths celebrating our country in song. What a journey this country has had, virtuous
and sinful, just like the Israelites in the desert, just like each of us in our
Lenten pilgrimage.

In our home we have
a cross with the Lord’s Prayer inscribed in Arabic. I sure can’t say it! But the script is lovely and it reminds me
that my Father knows my prayer even if I don’t know what I need myself. And that the Word has gone out to all God’s
people. On the internet one can find the
Lord’s Prayer in hundreds and hundreds of languages. As the faithful, from East to West, morning
to night, lift their voices in prayer, I imagine that the words run together in
a torrent of offering. The Lord hears
through the words to hearts full of faith, hopefulness, supplication, fear,
anger, desperation, confidence, doubt, gratitude.

Action

Listen to the Words
Jesus taught us in a language you do not know.
Listen several times so that you hear not the babble of unfamiliar words
but rather be lifted up on the human desire to find God, to do God’s will and to
be united with Our Father in heaven as Jesus, Word, showed us.